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North Haven Community School's high school students clamber out of their tents in the cool morning air of Chewonki Campground. Their morning procedure is almost like that of a normal school day-eating breakfast and preparing for class-but today's preparations are for a most unorthodox classroom setting. Today they will be attending the campus at Shelter Institute, where they will learn the age-old art of post and beam construction. This is not for novelty, nor a lesson in an antiquated trade-the timbers that the students carefully measure, mark and cut will then be ferried out to North Haven and erected as part of the Projects Building, the newest addition to their school.
"It sort of naturally evolved," says Barney Hallowell, principal of North Haven Community School (NHCS), of the timberframing project. "The kids got very interested in the project, and actually began building their own models of timberframes. It was kind of surprising in a way. And that led to us saying ‘Well, let's have some instruction.'" The Shelter Institute in Wiscasset was a perfect match for the temper of the project-it has a long running history (35 years) in the teaching and dissemination of sustainable building techniques, and has developed a well-earned niche in the field of "green" architecture. The school has worked with high-school aged students before, but never an entire high school. Instructor Blueberry Beeton says, "We are really excited about it. We've offered a scholarship for years, [for one high-school aged student per class], but this is sort of a unique project." Beeton points out the fact that due to the small size of the school, the entire high school can attend one timberframing class session.
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